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Getting Started with DuckDB

You're reading from   Getting Started with DuckDB A practical guide for accelerating your data science, data analytics, and data engineering workflows

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803241005
Length 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ned Letcher Ned Letcher
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Simon Aubury Simon Aubury
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: An Introduction to DuckDB FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Loading Data into DuckDB 3. Chapter 3: Data Manipulation with DuckDB 4. Chapter 4: DuckDB Operations and Performance 5. Chapter 5: DuckDB Extensions 6. Chapter 6: Semi-Structured Data Manipulation 7. Chapter 7: Setting up the DuckDB Python Client 8. Chapter 8: Exploring DuckDB’s Python API 9. Chapter 9: Exploring DuckDB’s R API 10. Chapter 10: Using DuckDB Effectively 11. Chapter 11: Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with DuckDB 12. Chapter 12: DuckDB – The Wider Pond 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

DuckDB Operations and Performance

In this chapter, we dive into DuckDB operations and performance. We will explore some of the features and techniques that can help you understand and improve the speed and efficiency of your DuckDB workloads. We will start by discussing how DuckDB supports indexes to speed up queries on large tables, followed by exploring file operations on Parquet data files. During these explorations, we will cover how to analyze queries by looking at their query plans, as well as how we can use run-time profiling to inspect the timing and memory usage of our workloads.

We will also dive into working with timestamps, looking at the data types and features that DuckDB offers for handling times and time zones. We conclude by looking at how window functions can be used to efficiently process time-series data.

The chapter’s exploration of these topics is structured as follows:

  • Exploring DuckDB indexes
  • Optimizing file read performance of DuckDB...
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